Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 Hot AC 1/29/11

[musicfanpete]

A new week brings a brand new number one song as Katy Perry scores her third consecutive number one song from her "Teenage Dream" album with "Firework". Omitting the three weeks during the holiday break, she would have hit the top in just six weeks. This would make this the fastest climbing number one song since her previous hit "Californina Gurls". Look for this song to stay parked at the top for awhile.

Once again, the same artist has this week's biggest jumper and dropper, something that seems to occur quite often on Rick's chart. Taylor Swift drops 10 spots to #31 with "Mine" while her latest hit "Back To December" climbs 10 spots from #35 to #25. Maroon 5 has this week's next two biggest droppers with their two latest hits "Give A Little More" and "Misery", down 8 spots and 7 spots respectively. Not a huge surprise as "Give A Little More" has been falling rapidly down the official Hot AC charts.

Other highlights include debuts by Adele and Pink, the later debuting with "Perfect" (sorry but I refuse to mention the more controverial "official" title of this song! ). Two songs reverse directions this week as "Start A Fire" by Ryan Starr returns to its peak of #18, while Ingrid Michaelson moves up 3 spots to a new peak of #30 with "Parachute".

Rick really went to town with Bonus Tracks this as he played six of them! Several of these being number one songs on this date, and back to back Bonus Tracks from Kelly Clarkson. And for the first time (at least in a long while) Rick started the show by playing last week's number one song followed by the Sure Shot. I don't know if he will keep this up in weeks to come, but it is reminiscent of how Casey Kasem opened up his countdown shows in the past.

TC LC wc Artist/Title
01 03 09 Katy Perry: Firework (1 Wk @ #1)
02 01 13 Pink: Raise Your Glass
03 04 14 Train: Marry Me
04 05 23 Plain White T's: Rhythm Of Love
05 02 27 Neon Trees: Animal
06 06 22 Taio Cruz: Dynamite
07 09 19 Christina Perri: Jar Of Hearts
08 07 19 Bruno Mars: Just The Way You Are
09 12 11 Sick Puppies: Maybe
10 10 29 Lifehouse: All In
11 17 11 Rihanna: Only Girl (In The World)
12 13 17 Usher f/Pitbull: DJ Got Us Falling In Love
13 15 09 The Script: For The First Time
14 14 11 Nelly: Just A Dream
15 11 23 OneRepublic: Secrets
16 08 13 Maroon 5: Give A Little More
17 16 28 Daughtry: September
18 20 14 Ryan Star: Start A Fire
19 19 08 Lee DeWyze: Sweet Serendipity
20 23 04 Linkin Park: Waiting For The End
21 18 23 Katy Perry: Teenage Dream
22 25 03 Florence & The Machine: Dog Days Are Over
23 29 04 Bruno Mars: Grenade
24 22 04 Ke$ha: We R Who We R
25 35 02 Taylor Swift: Back To December
26 27 08 Hedley: Perfect
27 24 17 Bon Jovi: What Do U Got
28 31 02 Goo Goo Dolls: Notbroken
29 30 03 Mumford & Sons: Little Lion Man
30 33 10 Ingrid Michaelson: Parachute
31 21 21 Taylor Swift: Mine
32 SS 01 Adele: Rolling In The Deep
33 26 27 Maroon 5: Misery
34 28 25 Enrique Iglesias f/Pitbull: I Like It
35 xx 01 Pink: Perfect
36 34 39 Train: If It's Love
37 36 25 Paramore: The Only Exception
38 32 12 Natasha Bedingfield: Strip Me
39 37 08 Mike Posner: Please Don't Go
40 39 33 Sara Bareilles: King Of Anything
SS- James Blunt: Stay The Night

Droppers-
Michael Franti & Spearhead: The Sound Of Sunshine (from #40, 19 weeks on)
Adam Lambert: If I Had You (from #38, 21 weeks on)

Bonus Tracks-
Colbie Caillat: Bubbly (between #27 & #26)
Owl City: Fireflies (between #23 & #22)
Nickelback: Gotta Be Somebody (between #17 & #16)
Lady Gaga: Alejandro (between #13 & #12)
Kelly Clarkson: Miss Independent (between #7 & #6)
Kelly Clarkson: Already Gone (between #2 & #1)

[MostInterestingManInTheWorld]

I know in late 1989/early 1990, Rick would on occasion start the show by playing a medley of that week's chart droppers. Not surprisingly, he'd make frequent errors attempting to do so.

[musicfanpete]

Jan 29, 2011 21:31:50 GMT -5 MostInterestingManInTheWorld said:

I know in late 1989/early 1990, Rick would on occasion start the show by playing a medley of that week's chart droppers. Not surprisingly, he'd make frequent errors attempting to do so.

Well, we'll see if he continues to play the previous week's number one song in upcoming shows or not. Also now we got double the amount of very bland Bonus Tracks that we usually get, "Alejandro" notwithstanding!